Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-03

the millions who choose to eater it.
John Newton sang Of it when he wrote;
Amazing grace, now sweet the sound
That saved wretch Ike me
Philip Doddridge put il into sll hymn
oiogy when he wrote:
Grace, 'tis q charming sound,
Harmonious to the ear;
Heaven with the echo shall TeSOUnd,
And all the world shall hsar.
One Of John BunYan's great books is
entitled "Ab0unding Grace" sit Ig all |
oi grace that l 8m saved" has been on |
the lips OF hundreds Of dying Christians. |
The boy Sammy was right when, being |
examined for admission into ChUCCh mem |
bership, he was asked: "Whose work J
was your salvatioG?" srd be answered:
"Part mine and part Gods" Then the
examiner asked "What part did you do,
Sammy" and the answer Was: ~ OBJ
posed God all l could, ana He did the
rest" Oh, the height Of it, the depth of
it, the length OF it, the breadth of it, the
grace OF God. Mr.. Fletcher, having
written pamphlet that pleased the King,
the King offered to compensate him, and
Fletcher answered: "Ihere is only one
thing that | want, and that is more
grace" Yes, my blOoQ-bougbt hearers,
grace to live by and grace to die by.
Grace that saveo the publican, thGt saved
Lydia, that eGyed
THE DYING THIEF,
that saved the TAILOR, that saved me. But
the riches of that grace will not be fully
understood until heaven breaks in upon
the soul. An old SGotchmaD, who had
been soldier in one Of the European
VISITS, was sick and dying in one OF our
! American hospitals. His one desire was
| to see Scotland and his old home, and
once AGAR walk the heather Of the High
lands, and near the oagpipes of the Scotch
regiments. The night the old Scotch
soldier died, = young man, somewhat
reckless but kind-hearted, got company
of musicians to come and piay under the
old soldiers window, and among the in
struments there was q bagpipe. The III
slant thst the musicians began the dying
old man IL deIirium said: "Whats
that, what's that? Why, it's
the regiments coming home. That's the
tune; yes, that's the tune. Thank God
have got home once more!" "Bonny
.Scotland end BOnEy Doom were the last
words he uttered es ne passed up TO the
Highlands Of the better country. And
there are here to-day hundreds homesick
for he's ven, some because y0u have so
3 |
have so many ;emptatiOns, some because
you have so many silments, hOmesick,
very RGmesiCk, for the fatherland OF
heaven, and the music you want to hear
now is the song of free grace, and the
song you want 30 hear when you die is
free grace, and forever before the throne
OF God you will sing Of the "grsce Of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who though He was
vjCf for VOur 1Saa bGTs-np rDCr ~
, Yes, yes; for your sskes! Il was not
on pleasure excursion that lie came, 20!
: it was eli pain. It wss not OF astronomi.
: c2l exploration, for He knew This wOrlC
as well before he aHghted as atterward
Il Was nos because He was
n COMPELLED TO COME,
fer He volunteered. Il Was not because
O it was easy, fer He knew that it would be
= thorn end spike and hunger and thirS
and voCiierati0n Of angry mob5. Fol
. your sakes. Wipe sway your tezrs. II
:. forgive your wrongdOing, TO companion.
+ ship your loneliness, 20 soothe Jour sOr.
4 rows, TO sit with you by the newmsdt
4 grave, to bind up your wounds in tht
q ugly battle with the world and bring yOl
= nome at last, kindliDg up the mists tha
= fall on Jour dying vision with the sun
y light q glorious mo m. For your sake
= No; l will change that. Paul will no
4 care, and C1rist will not care il | chang
% K, Tor l must get into the blesseiness o
4 the text myself, and so say: "For GU
= sakes." For we all have our tempta
tons and beTeavements aud conflicts
"a Fer eur sAkes We who deserve for on
- sins TO be eXpGtriated into 8 wor!
- as much poorer than this cart
= than this earth wgs poorer tbs
- heaven. For our sskes! But what
: fruitful coming down TO lake L
= Sloriously up. When Artaxerxes VS.
hunting, TirebsZus, who was attendin
him. showed the king 8 rent in his ga
ment. The king said: CHOW shall
mend it?' 'By giving it to me,' sal
TiTebaZus. Then the king gave ..him ii
robe, but commanded him never to wei
it, as it would be Inappropriate See tt
" startling and comforting fact, while OF
IS Prince throws of the habit He rot onl
Is. allows US to wear it but commands Us t
re wesr il, and ii will become US WELL sn
L. for The poverties of our spiritusl state "
OF may put on the splendors of heaven
5? regslement. For cur sakes, o, Il
y, personality Of this religion! Not an 81
ed strscIon, not Sn arch under which Y
III walk to behold elaborate masonry, not
" lCS GSStIS A4hC l4LCL WHICH Impress EllZ
st beth of Russia, over a hundred vesrs eg
in constructed, winter with its trowel
lis crystal cementing the huge blocks til
as had been Quarried from the frozen rive
ed Of the north, but fathers house with
to wide hearth cracking
H. HEARTY WELCOME.
YRS a religion of warmth, and inspi-atio
ill and light, and cheer; something We c.
rat take into our hearts, and homes, 81
Is? business, recrestions, and joys and so
us rows. Not an unmsnsgesble gift, Ii
for the galley presented to Ptolemy, VIII
required 1000 men to row, and its draus
NO of water was so grea- th.t it could 4
oily come near the shore, but something Y
of can run up any stream OF ennoyan(
to however shallow. Enrichment now, {
IKE richment forever.
on Right about face, for you are going